The new Family Life Education curriculum materials with the new sexual orientation and gender identity additions are posted.

Review the materials, and remember to opt your child out of lessons, or the entire year. Look at the materials, and teach your child the materials yourself from the perspective of your family values. It will have much more meaning to your child if you spend the time to teach them than coming from a teacher reading a script.

FLE materials are here: (click curriculum at the top for materials)
https://fcps.blackboard.com/

Opt out forms are here: http://www.fcps.edu/is/hpe/fle.shtml

It is highly recommended that you opt out of at least the new gender identity/sexual orientation materials, that are intended purely as propaganda.

An example I find offensive, is in 7th grade when a slide is shown regarding discrimination, the teacher defines it for the students this way:

"Discrimination: treating of some people differently than others without any clear reason; treating people unfairly based on a category, such as age, race, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identification"

Note the addition of "sexual orientation" and "gender identification", as well as the omission of "religion" and "national origin". There is a long list of problems I have with the materials. The FLE content is full of bias like this which I find very biased by the creators of the curriculum.

As a concerned parent, I highly recommend:

1) Log into Blackboard, click the "Curriculum" link near the top and look through the lesson details of the FLE lessons, and presentation for your child's grade.

https://fcps.blackboard.com

2) Print out the "Opt Out Request Form" forms for your child's grade, and check the boxes next to those lessons in which you do not want your child to take part. I recommend checking all the boxes, and personally teaching your child yourself based on the contents, but from your point of view with respect to your personal, religious or cultural values.

http://www.fcps.edu/is/hpe/fle.shtml

- Remember to check next to each lesson you want your child to not participate in. They will be given alternate arrangements, such as going to the library, where they can do homework, read books, magazines or other activities.

- Remember to turn in the opt-out forms with the other required forms at the start of the school year, or to your child's FLE teacher prior to the start of FLE lessons.

NOTE: The lesson descriptions on the opt-out forms are vague, and it is better to review the actual class script the teacher follows, as well as the slide presentations and videos shown which are all available for your review on Blackboard.

3) Spread this to other parents to inform them of their right and ability to review and opt-out of objectionable FLE content.

This is very important for parents to pay attention to because - for boys, anyway - 7th grade will be very influential. The teachers, their peers, fitting in with "the crowd". This is when you will lose your son. Especially with all of this talk being taught by the school (it must be right and parents wrong). Most detrimental is that it implies your child needs to identify himself, disclose it and this in turn allows everyone else to "accept" them. Without disclosure, there is nothing to accept. Accepting is the big verb being pushed. Therefore, your son must disclose. This in itself is abusive to innocent boys not quite there yet. The impact on a child who prematurely declares their "preference" under peer pressure - and for that matter, the school's pressure - is great. Next, after disclosure (even if in jest or under pressure by the girls), your son will need to validate his statement which will require action. Once he validates (sexual act) whatever bullshit he's been saying, he's gone. It will be too great to turn back. It would mean you were going back in the closet. Into denial. They (school society) would never let him. No one goes back in the closet and they have no avenue for mistakes.

This is such a fragile time for children as they cross into adulthood with the accompanying hormones. It is not a time for our schools to teach our children that there is no such thing as "boys and girls" and that everything sexual is "fluid" (meaning they can flow in and out of any type of sexual relationship and that is natural) Thus the need for gender neutral bathrooms, showers, etc.
Hell no!! [anyway, how can they teach this nonsense and continue to have "boy/girl" stuff. That would make the school actively and knowingly discriminating or at least contradicting themselves. Ugh. Crazy]

Teen girls at this age like boys that aren't quite there yet to proclaim they are gay, or whatever, because it gives them the opportunity to accept these boys like a lost puppy and it explains to the girls (affirms them) as to why the young boy wasn't panting after them in the first place. You know how it is at this age - the girls are way more mature and the boys (some of them) aren't there yet.

The school is an agent of the parents. In our children's eyes, the school speaks for us. Unless we tell our children first, what's what and forewarn them that this other ugly untrue talk will be taught as truth but it is not truth, you might lose them to the lie and they might be caught-up in the vicious web that follows.

Poor kids. Why can't they just be left to themselves to grow up? This is so detrimental to their whole experience and at such a critical age. Children should be allowed to remain innocent for as long as they are innocent. Any harm done to their innocence by teaching pornographic material, talk, visual aides or inciting peer pressure should be prosecutable. Please quote me on that.

WatchOutForTheSchools Wrote:
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> This is very important for parents to pay
> attention to because - for boys, anyway - 7th
> grade will be very influential. The teachers,
> their peers, fitting in with "the crowd". This is
> when you will lose your son. Especially with all
> of this talk being taught by the school (it must
> be right and parents wrong). Most detrimental is
> that it implies your child needs to identify
> himself, disclose it and this in turn allows
> everyone else to "accept" them. Without
> disclosure, there is nothing to accept. Accepting
> is the big verb being pushed. Therefore, your son
> must disclose. This in itself is abusive to
> innocent boys not quite there yet. The impact on a
> child who prematurely declares their "preference"
> under peer pressure - and for that matter, the
> school's pressure - is great. Next, after
> disclosure (even if in jest or under pressure by
> the girls), your son will need to validate his
> statement which will require action. Once he
> validates (sexual act) whatever bullshit he's been
> saying, he's gone. It will be too great to turn
> back. It would mean you were going back in the
> closet. Into denial. They (school society) would
> never let him. No one goes back in the closet and
> they have no avenue for mistakes.
>
> This is such a fragile time for children as they
> cross into adulthood with the accompanying
> hormones. It is not a time for our schools to
> teach our children that there is no such thing as
> "boys and girls" and that everything sexual is
> "fluid" (meaning they can flow in and out of any
> type of sexual relationship and that is natural)
> Thus the need for gender neutral bathrooms,
> showers, etc.
> Hell no!! [anyway, how can they teach this
> nonsense and continue to have "boy/girl" stuff.
> That would make the school actively and knowingly
> discriminating or at least contradicting
> themselves. Ugh. Crazy]
>
> Teen girls at this age like boys that aren't
> quite there yet to proclaim they are gay, or
> whatever, because it gives them the opportunity to
> accept these boys like a lost puppy and it
> explains to the girls (affirms them) as to why the
> young boy wasn't panting after them in the first
> place. You know how it is at this age - the girls
> are way more mature and the boys (some of them)
> aren't there yet.
>
> The school is an agent of the parents. In our
> children's eyes, the school speaks for us. Unless
> we tell our children first, what's what and
> forewarn them that this other ugly untrue talk
> will be taught as truth but it is not truth, you
> might lose them to the lie and they might be
> caught-up in the vicious web that follows.
>
> Poor kids. Why can't they just be left to
> themselves to grow up? This is so detrimental to
> their whole experience and at such a critical age.
> Children should be allowed to remain innocent for
> as long as they are innocent. Any harm done to
> their innocence by teaching pornographic material,
> talk, visual aides or inciting peer pressure
> should be prosecutable. Please quote me on that.


Left to themselves these kids will just drink, drug, and have sex
That's no good

>gender identification
>The FLE content is full of bias like this which I find very biased by the creators of the curriculum.

OP you are a moron
its called biology and that shit cant be "biased"
theres 2 genders, anything else is just a mental disorder
go back to school
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@WatchOutForTheSchools, you bring out a great point that 7th grade is very formative in children.

They are entering puberty, or full blown in the middle of it. It's a very confusing time for kids. Everything they feel, is new, and most kids are unsettled and confused.

FLE teaches these kids that gender identity is a static part of the self, separate from biological sex, etc.

However, the scientific data conflicts with this. A great majority of kids who are gender confused at this age, do not persist in this - they end up conforming with the gender identity that matches their sex. Feelings they may have at that age are not static, most kids with gender dysphoria at that age will desist in it.

There are a lot of pieces from the program that is not well laid out, especially for children that may be hearing this information for the first time. The bits and pieces they are told, really leave them with a false impression (quite probably intentionally).

To further confuse things, they use subtle language from LGBT lobby groups, such as "sex assigned at birth". It is intentional, which is unfortunate. You are born with a sex. It isn't assigned, and you have a sex whether or not one is assigned. They avoid using sex at birth for a reason. Look at the following sites to see why they use this term, not to teach but to further an agenda:

http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Assigned_Sex
http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Assigned_gender_at_birth

It is better to talk to your child about this yourself, or to be involved if your child has these issues and to personally help your child through it. The FLE materials are questionable at best, offensive and objectionable to those whose values, morals or ethics don't align with the perspective of the FLE authors.

The best option for parents, is to get onto blackboard, go through the slides, teacher scripts and videos and decide for yourself if the material is OK for your child. For many parents I have talked to, the materials go beyond what they realized was in the program.

The state FLE program, is very considerate to the wide perspectives and values of parents. It teaches very valuable information to prevent pregnancies, STDs, and touch on very important age appropriate topics in the development of children.

The FCPS FLE program, custom written for the district, goes far beyond the state program, moves age appropriate topics down many grades from the state level, and incorporates many controversial topics. The new materials are also not reviewed nor does it have community or public review or input to ensure the age appropriateness or ensure materials are accurate and objective.

WHO is doing this? WHY are they drilling it down to the poor and underpaid staff to preach this crap?
Don't tell me about Obama's fascination with leading a New World Order has seeped into the public school system. I want to know WHY school staff is willing to follow through on this directive as insane as it is, and WHO this benefits? And at the expense of our children?
W T F!

WTF Really now Wrote:
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> WHO is doing this? WHY are they drilling it down
> to the poor and underpaid staff to preach this
> crap?
> Don't tell me about Obama's fascination with
> leading a New World Order has seeped into the
> public school system. I want to know WHY school
> staff is willing to follow through on this
> directive as insane as it is, and WHO this
> benefits? And at the expense of our children?
> W T F!


Folks like McElvin and co. playing politics with our kids is my opinion. Vote them out. Opt your kids out. Enough of this.

Lots of these kids have turned in their SR&Rs to get a locker to start cross country, football, band, etc.
What a crock of shit. So my freshman daughter has cross country which travels a good deal. She will be put up in a hotel room with a "fluid" gender douche and I cannot even ask the coaches about this?
HORSE SHIT!!!